The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-29
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were cut and hewn forty years ago.
FLOYD TUFr, young giant of Westville, vt.
is eight years old and weighs 125 pounds. He is
| as strong as an OK, and can easily shoulder two
! bushels of corn.
The RECEIPTS of the Brooklyn bridge on Mon
day aggregated $3.50 SO, the largest sum taker
in ON any one day since the structure was
thrown open to the public.
VETERAN CHEsLEY HEAL, Of Searsmont, Me.
has just had his 10sth birthday He lives with
| young wife of 60, and has but two weaknesses
| one for tobacco and the other for telling yarns
| about the war of 1872 in which he fought.
THE NEW COMET recently discovered by the
astronomers is said to be now visible to the
naked eye and may be found in the evening il
| the northwest sky. The comet is moving east
ward is large and bright, and promises to be
come more brilliant in few weeks.
WILLIAM HALpIN was convicted in Jersey
City last Friday of illegal voting. He said that
he had supposed that he had been born in this
country till some one told him that Ireland was
MS birthplace. Under the impression that nat
uralization was unnecessary he had been regis
tered as citizen and voted
A TwELvE-PoUND CANNON SHOT was found i'm
bedded seventeen inches deep in an oak tree in
the suburbs of Franklin, Tenr. 1t was evi-
IDENTIFY fired from Federal cannon during the
bloody battle twenty three years ago, as 1t en-
tered Une Tree on tne SIDE next the Town. Inc
1bers of oak are still attached to the ball and
| are nearly as hard as the iron itself.
The new Maine law forbidding children less
than IL years of age to work in the mills, and
requiring that all between the ages of u and IS
shall have at least sixteen weeks schooling each
year, has increased the attendance at the schools
remarkably. 1t has also increased the age of
small children remarkably, as the mill superln-
tendentS find when they take the ages of opera
tives.
MAGGIE BLANCHARD, of Holling Point New
foundland, is fine chunk of a child When she
was five months old she was large enough to sit
at the table and eat the same food that her
parents ate. Now, at the age of 3 years. she
measures forty inches around the waist.
weighs 10 pounds and wears stockings as large
at the ankles as 10 cent salt bags. Withal she
is very active and playful child.
AS TWO well-diggers were sinking well on a
farm in Washington Township Ringgold county,
Iowa, at the depth of IA feet they began to find
white walnuts, well preserved, of which they
took out about half a bushel. At the depth Of
1t feet they found log OF wood and pair of
deerS horns. The horns were quite soft when
first taken out of the ground, but became hard
when exposed to the air The well was dug in
timber country, but one peculiar feature of the
case is that there is moi white walnut or but
ternut tree in the county.
THE GRAND TRUNK and Fitchburg railroads
and the New York Central and the Boston and
Albany roads are being put through a competi-
tive examination by John P. Squire, the big Bos-
ton pork man. Until recently the first named
roads carried all the stock, but now the business
IS divided between the two systems, and the one
that makes the fastest record in shipping stock
will have the whole business. Squire'S cars are
run as express freight, and all other freight
trains are side track ed to allow them to pass
careful record of each days transfers is kept.
TEDDY WICK, an expert barber in London, re-
Gently undertook to shave fifty persons in sixty
minutes for a wager of SIS side. He is
said to have actually shaved seventy-seven in
three seconds less than an hour, thus easily
winning the stakes He shaved twenty-one in
the first fifteen minutes, fourteen in the second
quarter hour, nineteen in the third, and twenty
three in the last fourteen minutes and fifty
three seconds Since this performance j. Fill
brick of the same city has offered to back him
self to beat the performance of Wick for gold
or silver medal.
Mr.. STALLINGs, of Mineral county, West Vir-
ginia, was riding along the pike on his way home
on Thursday, when he saw a wild turkey run
across the road in front of him, pursued by two
large eagles, which caught their game in the
brush not % yards distant. StallingS sprang
from his horse, and with a stick drove off the
eagles and captured the bird, which was still
alive, but stripped almost nude of its feathers
The eagles appeared to be ravenous, as they
flew only few yards distant and alighted in a
tree, where they remained until Mr.. Stallings
rode OFF with their prey.
IT isn't always safe to play jokes on watch
men. Some smart young New Haven men
thought they would have fun with private
Waterman Wilcox. One told him that suspc-
ious men were around so he got out his revolver
and sat down outside the building. Two sus-
piciousy acting men came along, and one of
them, after a moments conversation with Will
cox snatched the revolver and ran. That's
where he made mistake, for the Waterman
had a shotgun by the side of him and he drove
a load of shot into the runners legs, bringing
him to halt in a hurry. Then he was recog-
niZed as one of the young men who thought it
would be a big joke to disarm the Waterman.
The doctors haven't picked all the shot out of
his legs yet.
ONE of the most singular features in the seem
cry of the Territory of Idaho is the Occurrences
of dark, rocky chasms, into which large streams
and creeks suddenly disappear and are never
more seen. These assures are old lava channels,
produced by the outside of the molten mass
cooling and forming tube, which, on the fiery
stream becoming exhausted, has been left
empty, while the roof of the lava duct, having
at some point fallen in presents there the open
ing into which the river plunges and is lost At
one place along the banks of the Snake one of
these rivers reappearS, gushing from a cleft
high up in the basaltic walls where it leaps a
cataract into the torrent below. Where this
stream has its origin, or at what point it is
swallowed up, is utterly unknown, though il is
the north country.
SOME time ago Luther r. Brooks a diamond
merchant, bought a petrified fish in Oregon of a
man who had just brought it down from the
mountains The finder said it came out of a
ledge on top of the mountain near Portland
about 8, 200 feet above the level of the sea- At
the time Mr.. Brooks purchased it the tail of the
fish could alone be seen, but he set to work re-
moving the rock that covered the remainder of
the object. He labored carefully and slowly for
several hours day for six weeks, and was re-
warded by obtaining fine specimen of petri-
fed fish, about IN inches long and inches
through the widest or thickest part. The out
lines of the tail are complete, and the small rib
bones are as distinct as though they had lust
been placed there The upper and lower fins
are also plainly seen, and the head has retained
its shape, while the vertebral column is clearly
defined. The stone proper is of light grayish
tint, forming an excellent relief or background
for the dark color of the fish.
AMONG the interesting objects now on exhbi.
ton in the Texas State Fair at Dallas is a large
arolite or meteoric stone which was found in
the country of the Comanche Indians in 1858 by
Prof. A. r. Roesler, then State Geologist of
Texas. The Indians knew from tradition that
had come down to them from an extremely
early period that this was thunder stones
which had fallen from the skies, and they re-
garded it with great reverence and wonder and
were accustomed to visit it, where it Law partial
ly buried in the earth, to whet their knives and
arrow points upon its Sides believing that their
weapons thereby acquired some celestial or
magic powers. An analysis of its compoSition
made by DR.. w. Riddle, chemist Of the Geolopi-
cal Survey, shows il to consist in parts Iron
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